Billiard-cue and tip therefor.



PATENTED OCT. 4, 1904.

H. HAES.

BILLIARD CUE AND TIP THEREFOR.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 2'7, 1902.

NO MODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented October 4, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

BlLLlARD-CUE AND TIP THEREFOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 771,727, dated October4, 1904.

Application filed June 2'7, 1902.

To all whom, it may concern-.-

tips therefor, and has for its principal object to construct thesedevices so as to enable the tips to be very readily and securely fixedto the cues and the newly-tipped cues to be immediately thereafteravailable for use. This result has not been attained by the meanshitherto ordinarily employed, because the glue or cement generally usedfor fixing the tips to the cues takes an appreciable time to set, duringwhich the cues cannot be used. Moreover, before a new tip can be appliedto the cue any old glue or cement adhering to the latter must first becarefully removed, so that a level seating may be provided for the newtip, all of which involves a somewhat cgnsiderable expenditure of time.

According to my invention I overcome all the above-mentioneddifiiculties by providing the cue with a cup and the tip with a sockethaving a shank fitting into the said cup.

By the term tip, as hereinafter employed, I mean a device whichcomprises a strikingpiece consisting of only one layer of leather orother suitable material, together with its socket.

In the accompanying drawings, which illus trate, on an enlarged scale,the Way of carrying this invention into effect, Figure 1 is anelevation, partly broken away, of the tip in its socket. Fig. 2 is asimilar view of the cup for receiving the shank of the said socket.

Fig. 3 is a plan of the said cup; and Fig. 4 is an elevation, partlybroken away, showing the devices represented in Figs. 1, 2, and 3applied to a cue, of which latter only a portion is included in thefigure.

The tip 6 is formed with a slightly-reduced portion 0, and the malescrew or shank 7, which,

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as shown in Fig. 1,is of substantially smaller diameter than the tip 6,is fitted thereto by means ofasocketf formed integrally therewith and inwhich the tip may be secured by one or more indentations f 3 f as shown,or by any other suitable means. The cup (0 is preferably provided with aflange a ,'and, as shown in Fig. 4, is sunk into a recess it, formed inthe end of the cue 5, and secured thereto most conveniently by a centralscrew 0, pointsz'z', projecting from the under side of the flange a andengaging in the end of the one 6, being provided for preventing the cupfrom turning about the screw 0.

WVhen it is required to replace the beforedescribed tip, all that isnecessary is to unscrew the old one and tightly screw the new one intoits place. For these purposes pliers may be used adapted, if desired, toengage the indentations f f in the tip-socket f One or morespring-tongues, somewhat resembling the points 2' a, may be provided onthe under side of the tip-socket f in such position as to enable it orthem to engage with holes or depressions formed in the flange (f. Thiswould insure against the turning backward of the tip on the cue.

What I claim as myinvention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent ofthe United States, 1s-

1. The combination with a billiard-cue and a tip consisting of one layerof material, of a screw-threaded cup fixed permanently to the cue, arecess in the cue to receive the cup, a flange on the cup to bear on theend of the one around the recess, a socket in which the tip ispermanently and immovably fixed and a screw-threaded metallic shankintegral with the socket adapted to enter the cup and engage with thescrew-threads thereof substantially as hereinbefore described.

2. The combination with abilliard-cue and a tip consisting of one layerof material, of a screw-threaded cup fixed permanently to the one, arecess in the cue to receive the cup, a flange on the cup to bear on theend of the one around the recess, points in the flange engaging the cueto prevent the cup from be- In testimony that I claim the foregoing asing rotated thereon, a socket in which the tip my invention Ihave signedmy name {in presis permanently and irnrnovably fixed and a once of twosubscribing Witnesses.

screw-threaded metallic shank integral With HUBERT HAES. 5 the socketadapted. to enter the cup and en- Witnesses:

gage with the screw-threads thereof substan- RICHARD EWALD,

tially as hereinbefore described. WALTER VON DEWITZ.

